[LINK] OT: How to Lie with Statistics v. 2,619

[Roger Clarke]

If you weight Gold-Silver-Bronze 3-2-1, Australia lies 8th

If you just do a medal-count     1-1-1                 8th

If                               5-3-1                 5th
                                  5-2-1                 6th
                                  7-3-1                 6th

But if you prefer to weight      1-0-0                11th


The official Olympics page uses 1-0-0, so we're 11th:
http://www.london2012.com/medals/medal-count/

The Huffington Post's (*atrocious*) page uses 1-1-1, making us 8th,
and enabling the US to just overtake China again.

Guess which the AOC will choose to use  (:-)}


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